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Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Wed April 24, 2024 7:04 pm
by RockPusher
stip wrote:
RockPusher wrote:
stip wrote:
oneway23 wrote:Forgot Swallowed Whole. Its R.E.M.-inspired intro is enough to win me over.
I'm good with Sleeping By Myself, too. It's a little kitsch maybe, sure, but, I find it charming.
the frustrating thing about swallowed whole is that it has all that REM/great outdoors energy drained from it. gigaton and DM really make it clear how sterile and lifeless the LB production is. i love the songs
Sterile and lifeless production is exactly the problem. The dreamer in me likes to imagine them going back to this one and approaching each song from the album as a demo for which the Dark Matter song creation process will be applied.
Release the Josh Evans cut!
There actually is a live versions album or playlist, no?

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Wed April 24, 2024 7:04 pm
by Ms Harmless
I'd say yes to Josh Evans cuts of BS and LB

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Wed April 24, 2024 7:08 pm
by stip
RockPusher wrote:
stip wrote:
RockPusher wrote:
stip wrote:
oneway23 wrote:Forgot Swallowed Whole. Its R.E.M.-inspired intro is enough to win me over.
I'm good with Sleeping By Myself, too. It's a little kitsch maybe, sure, but, I find it charming.
the frustrating thing about swallowed whole is that it has all that REM/great outdoors energy drained from it. gigaton and DM really make it clear how sterile and lifeless the LB production is. i love the songs
Sterile and lifeless production is exactly the problem. The dreamer in me likes to imagine them going back to this one and approaching each song from the album as a demo for which the Dark Matter song creation process will be applied.
Release the Josh Evans cut!
There actually is a live versions album or playlist, no?
I am more a pearl jam studio guy than live, and unfortunately the tour lightning bolt was predominantly played on was not their best work

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Wed April 24, 2024 8:15 pm
by VinylGuy
Ms Harmless wrote:I'd say yes to Josh Evans cuts of BS and LB
totally yes

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Wed April 24, 2024 8:27 pm
by oneway23
Support all comments re: production, sadly.

All for a Josh Evans LB: Re-deux!

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Wed April 24, 2024 8:31 pm
by darth_vedder
Listened to this about two weeks ago for the first time in awhile. I think it still remains my least favorite, but I definitely like some some songs. Not sure if I have any real standouts, but I'll go back and listen to the album from time to time.

I like Pendulum best, then probably Mind Your Manners. I also really like what they did with Sleeping By Myself. I think the full band version is much better than the Uke version. It makes me thinks that PJ could possibly dabble more in alt. county if they really wanted to (Drifting, Thin Air, Sunburn, 25 Minutes To Go, Puzzles & Games, 1st part of Setting Sun).

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Wed April 24, 2024 8:43 pm
by tommy
Is Pendulum their most half baked song?

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Wed April 24, 2024 9:07 pm
by darth_vedder
tommy wrote:Is Pendulum their most half baked song?
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Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Wed April 24, 2024 9:41 pm
by Ms Harmless
tommy wrote:Is Pendulum their most half baked song?
no

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Thu April 25, 2024 1:08 am
by KurtLeon
Hypnos wrote:I dont believe Ive had posted this one here yet:

LB remixed with the help of AI

https://mega.nz/file/GIdw3ISK#6nuckVMZ8 ... z2xb81-LE0
Hey this is pretty cool

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Thu April 25, 2024 1:47 am
by Kalevi
This album has a lot of songs I like a lot. I like the 2016 boots I've heard that still prominently feature LB. I love Getaway, swallowed whole, sleeping by myself, pendulum and infallible. I really like MFS, yellow moon, LB and MYM as well.

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Thu April 25, 2024 2:35 am
by WaitingForBluey
I decided a few weeks ago that I might actually like this album. I would definitely take it over Backspacer and still debating about its placement over S/T... but most importantly I LOVE the artwork... I'm drawn to it in some weird way.

I wish I could give it 3.5 stars

Best songs:
MFS, Infallible, Swallowed Whole, Yellow Moon

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Thu April 25, 2024 7:47 am
by Mike
KurtLeon wrote:
Hypnos wrote:I dont believe Ive had posted this one here yet:

LB remixed with the help of AI

https://mega.nz/file/GIdw3ISK#6nuckVMZ8 ... z2xb81-LE0
Hey this is pretty cool
Getaway sounds like a youtube video where a bass player plays along to the song really loud

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Thu April 25, 2024 9:05 am
by stip
WaitingForBluey wrote:I decided a few weeks ago that I might actually like this album. I would definitely take it over Backspacer and still debating about its placement over S/T... but most importantly I LOVE the artwork... I'm drawn to it in some weird way.

I wish I could give it 3.5 stars

Best songs:
MFS, Infallible, Swallowed Whole, Yellow Moon
second favorite art behind vitalogy. i think it won a grammy

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Thu April 25, 2024 9:33 am
by Mike
I like some of the inner booklet art but the cover only reminds me of a one eyed team buddy
Image

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Thu April 25, 2024 10:43 am
by stip
that seems like a net positive!

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Thu April 25, 2024 1:31 pm
by KurtLeon
Mike wrote:
KurtLeon wrote:
Hypnos wrote:I dont believe Ive had posted this one here yet:

LB remixed with the help of AI

https://mega.nz/file/GIdw3ISK#6nuckVMZ8 ... z2xb81-LE0
Hey this is pretty cool
Getaway sounds like a youtube video where a bass player plays along to the song really loud
It really does. And some of the edits just feels alien to me.

But still, its fun. Not perfect, but it's interesting.

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 8:00 pm
by Ms Harmless
this album is much easier to stomach on the other side of an album that gets "Pop Jam" so right; still bottom of the pack, but doesn't feel like such an uncomfortable stylistic anomaly

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 5:06 am
by Leatherhead
It's clear all the guys were not very interested/engaged in the making of this album. Pearl Jam kind of took a decade long break after Backspacer.

Re: Lightning Bolt: the official album thread

Posted: Tue October 15, 2024 3:51 pm
by stip
Happy Birthday my beautiful and misunderstood special guy!